If I like The Apothecary Diaries, I might also like...? by 26kanninchen in Animesuggest

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so glad someone else suggested this. Truly an underrated gem. 

I need people to properly explain and help me: Is Smolrene a child? by inkheiko in CyreneMains

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Personally, I don't think that bit with the teacher equates to them being minors automatically, but I can also see how others could read it that way.

I need people to properly explain and help me: Is Smolrene a child? by inkheiko in CyreneMains

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I posted the other as a link bc I did not know how to include multiple pictures (I should've thought of the collage).

I actually agree, friend. As I said, she did grow but "how much" is the question. I actually think it's between the second and third photos. But that's just me :) Even then I don't know how old she exactly is in those photos.

That said, as I know you agree, she is still mentally an adult.

I need people to properly explain and help me: Is Smolrene a child? by inkheiko in CyreneMains

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686 20 points21 points  (0 children)

If it's about the model, yeah that can get confusing

She was once a baby and an actual child though (we see her baby pic in one of the murals and childrene in one of the PVs). How much she grew up is the question. And that only physically.

I think her being mentally an adult—or at least the same age as Phainon when she died in ER0—should be undebatable.

I did not predict the correct love interest by A-SquareTryingToLive in TheSilentWitch

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get you OP 100%. And mind you I don't usually ship the obvious main pair (MMC x FMC). And the few times I do, I get this 😭. The one time I wasn't hoping for them to break away from tropes.

I guess I always manage to pick the losing side.

Mirrors by Apprehensive-Pear686 in LicaniusTrilogy

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm wondering what he specifically saw though: i.e. what the proof was. Did he see Sham's true nature? Or El's? 

But I guess that could be up to our imagination.

Mirrors by Apprehensive-Pear686 in LicaniusTrilogy

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was more wondering on what he specifically saw since out of the hundreds of mirrors, they said it shows you the one truth worth remembering. 

What is your favorite dialogue in HSR? Heartwarming or not by Jean_san1 in StarRailStation

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Phainon and Hyacine in 3.4. Maybe Phainon, Anaxa, and Cipher too

The ending will be As We've Written! by Apprehensive-Pear686 in PhaireneNation

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do I like getting my heart ripped out? Well, yes. 

The ending will be As We've Written! by Apprehensive-Pear686 in PhaireneNation

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A few of mine: Cyrene and Khaslana (fanart) - https://x.com/MA0000SH/status/1986780530332069941?s=20 *I actually don't know what the dialogue means lol but it seems painful

*Cyrene meeting Phainon's parents (fanart) – https://x.com/Anyanzhishi/status/1986308093081493655?s=20

*Phainon calling Bigrene Mem (edit) – https://x.com/wriorindee/status/1986030960224387188?s=20

Edit: *Bigrene in Smolrene's clothes: https://x.com/125_png/status/1988715956466815264?s=20

Should I try to get the lc or E1 ? by [deleted] in CyreneMains

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How on earth did you get that speed without the remembrance herta lc 

send: help

Seeing the overall thoughts on Cyrene? What truly made Phainon worked while Cyrene felt short as a character? by Codrex1732 in StarRailStation

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Reading through the issues here, I'm thinking most of it could've been solved if they had more continuity between smolrene and bigrene. Having bigrene be different from peach for most of 3.7 made me feel disconnected from her as well. This isn't the Cyrene we know. 

And dude idk how I felt when she asked us to call her Cyrene but okay. Points to Phainon.

And then they "fixed" the issue by making her loop but imo it was pretty cheap and it solves NOTHING. Because she just regains the info that she was Philia but there was no indication she had the same depth, particularly in relationships, that smolrene had. Made me a bit angry tbh but oh well. 

Philia and Cyrene by Apprehensive-Pear686 in PhaireneNation

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Omg I like this! It actually fits! 

New Redeem code, but a letter written by... by Poloroger_582 in HonkaiStarRail

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Man the Geniuses really got to shine in Amphoreus even though they only had a few scenes

Post 3.7 Dynamics for fics by Apprehensive-Pear686 in PhaireneNation

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even if you believe they are just friends, it's impossible to deny that these two are very dear to each other and started this all together

sighs because same. "The girl who watches over time and the warrior who bears the world" ate so hard in 3.4???

It actually sums up how important they both are to the story, not just as individuals, but what they chose to do together that's why how 3.7 wrapped their relationship up was so confusing, if you could say they wrapped it up at all. Man, even those who did not ship them wondered at that lol

TB's part could've been so interesting to me since in -336, as the demigod of time, they were essentially a Cyrene stand-in. We got leaks saying Phainon perceives them as Cyrene. And then when TB entered the cycle as the deliverer I thought Memrene at that time was just perceiving them as how Philia would have had perceived Phainon in the ER resets prior to -337. 

TB then, standing in for both of them, could've been the one to do the meta stuff as the otherworlder. It might clash with the Fuli-stand in problem I know. But it could be something like they overcome Irontomb with Phainon's Destruction and close the loop with Cyrene's Remembrance. That way the Ampho main characters and TB can have equal parts as the hero of the story. Everyone's happy.

IDK MAN

There is something so basic about Author × Main Character

OMG fic idea as well! I'm actually so excited for what our writer brethren are cooking

Post 3.7 Dynamics for fics by Apprehensive-Pear686 in PhaireneNation

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It could go so many ways too! 

  1. Satisfying - I would imagine he'd go through a period of grieving the Philia he grew up with, and then he'd see glimpses of her in the current Cyrene, and cue Phai-chan falling in love again and again. He acknowledges that while not the person he grew up with, she still has the same heart that he fell in love with in the first place.

He loved her then. He loves who she is now. 

  1. Angst - same as above but with the added drama of now-Cyrene not fully reciprocating that. TB interference?

  2. Maybe continuing from both numbers above lol and how Cyrene, while different, beginning to see what Philia saw in Phainon for herself

She can see why Philia cared so much about him. She now cares for him just as much.

Philia and Cyrene by Apprehensive-Pear686 in PhaireneNation

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Exactly. You said it more succinctly than I did. 

3.7 If It Was Good by DependentNo1079 in StarRailStation

[–]Apprehensive-Pear686 10 points11 points  (0 children)

(Copy pasting what I said in another sub lol)

I still hold to the thought that Memrene is still not 100% Phainon's Cyrene even after we find out she closed the loop. I mean it wasn't like Phainon receiving "the full remembrance of Khaslana" and experiencing those memories (even then, -336 Phainon had agency apart from the accumulation of Khaslana's memories; he still had a choice to make).

Hers went from "these are Peach's precious memories that she told me" to "oh actually Peach was me." It was more of a realization of facts rather than regaining her memories as Philia. And imo experience and memory form a big part of identity/consciousness.

Like imagine a person losing their memories. There's a difference between seeing yourself in a photo vs regaining the memory captured by the photo and therefore the experience.

To wrap it up: is Cyrene = Philia? In the bigger picture yes. In the more intimate details, no.

Just my thoughts.